Frame for games and other purposes



S. BROWN.

FRAME FOR GAMES AND OTHER PURPOSES. APPLICATION vFILED FEB. 28, 1921.

I Patented Oct. 18, 1921, j,/ 1w/L 2% 10151@ @ggfs By, f f fm. www

UNITED STATES STEWART BROWN, OF

CHICAGO, ILLINOIS.

FRAME FOR GAMES ANDOTHER PURPOSES.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Oct. 18, 1921.

` Application led February 28, 1921. Serial No. 448,728.

T 0 all whom t may concern Be it known that I, STEWART BRowN, a citizenof the United States, and a resident of Chicago, in the county of Cookand State of Illinois, have invented certain new and useful Improvementsin Frames for Games and other Purposes, of which the following,reference being had to the drawing accompanying and forming a parthereof, is a complete specication.

This invention relates to metal frames for pictures and other purposes.

Among the objects of the invention are, to economically obtain a durablemetal frame which may be used in a box like construction as the sidesand end walls thereof, as well also, to retain a front and a back tosaid construction; and also may be used as a frame in which a picturetogether with a protecting glass in front thereof and a protecting boardin back thereof, may be inclosed. Further objects ofthe invention are toobtain a frame which may form the side walls of a box like constructionand the re taining means whereby a glass front and a back may be builtinto said construction and held in spaced relation. Further objects areto obtain a sheet metal frame which can be easily built up at the timeof the assembling of the several parts which are to be inclosed in saidframe; whether the same be a picture and frame protected by a glassfront and a back, or a box like construction having a glass front andback in spaced relation.

In the drawing referred to Figure l represents a sheet metal ribbon fromwhich the frame illustrated is obtained.

Fig. 2 is a perspective of a frame which is obtained from the ribbonillustrated in Fig. l.

Fig. 3 is a cross section of said frame on line 3 3 of Fig. 2, viewed asindicated by arrows.

Fig. 4 is a section of one corner of the frame illustrated in Fig. 2, online /l-l of said Fig. 2, viewed as indicated by arrows.

A reference character applied to designate a given part indicates sai'dpart throughout the several figures of the drawing, wherever the sameappears.

- A, Fig. l and Fig. 4, represents sheet metal ribbons which are,respectively, provided with notches a, a, and tongue B, and aperture b.C, C, and D, l represent broken lines, on which the ribbons A and A arebent or formed, to obtain the frames illustrated in Fig. 2. E representsbroken lines to indica-te the lines on which the tongue B is bent inlocking the ends of the ribbon A together, in assembling the frameillustrated in Fig. 2. F, F, Figs. l, 2 and 3, represent indentations inribbon A; and G represents a ribbon of flexible material, as paper orcardboard, which is held in spaced relation to the body part of ribbon Awhen the several parts of the box like construction illustrated in Figs.Q and 3 are assembled. I-I represents a glass front, in the constructionillustrated in Fig. 2; and I a back in said construction. By thisspacing of ribbon G from ribbon A, said ribbon is held with the edgesthereof back from the edges of the front H and back I, and between saidfront and back, and said front and back are held in spaced relation bysaid ribbon G; as will be observed by referring to Fig. 3.

In assembling the frame obtained from ribbon A the tongue B is insertedin aperture o, subsequent to the bending of said ribbon on the brokenlines C, D and CZ; -and said tongue is then bent on broken line E, intothe position in which it is illustrated in Fig. et. Before bending saidribbon A on lines C the member G is bent on lines at right angles to theside edges thereof, the glass H and the back I are placed on the top andbottom edges of said member G, and the ribbon A is bent around saidfront, the back and said member G immediately prior to the insertion oftongue B in said aperture b. The sides of ribbon A may be bent on linesD, d, prior or subsequent to the placing of said ribbon around membersH, I, G, as preferred.

The notches a, o', are made of suiiicient diepth and size so that whenthe ribbon A, is bent on the lines D, (l, the edges of said notches areadjacent and are not particularly noticeable.

I claim:

l. In a new article of manufacture, a frame comprising a glass front anda back, a ribbon provided with an aperture adjacent to one end and atongue at the other end. and said ribbon bent adjacent to the sidesthereof to obtain flan-ges, in combination with an additional ribbon ofiexible matev rial. said ribbon being formed up with said additionalribbon inclosed by said first named ribbon and said tongue engaged insaid aperture to retain said ribbons in said formed up position, andmeans to hold said additional ribbon in spaced relation to said firstribbon, and between said front and back to retain said front and back inspaced relation.A

2. M new article of manufacture consisting` of a frame of sheet metalcomprising a ribbon provided with notches arranged in parallel onopposite sides-thereof, said sides being bent on lines extending betweenthe notches on a given side, to bring the edges of said sides intoplanes substantially at right angles to the plane of the body part ofsaid ribbon, and said body part provided With indentations and bent onlines extending from the notches on Yone side to the notches on theother side, anY additional ribbon of flexible material maintained inspaced relation to said first ribbon by said indentations, and arrangedto hold aglass front and a back in spaced relation, and means tomaintain said first namedribbon in its last named bent position.

STEWART BBOVVh1 In the presence of Y CHARLES TURNER BROWN, B. S. BROWN.

